Women in Ophthalmology Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 133524151
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- San Francisco, CA, USA
- Phone
- 3127888569
- Rating
- 74
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,250,432
- Expenses
- $1,833,727
- Assets
- $2,843,038
- Liabilities
- $146,130
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
14 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- LISA NIJM MD JD (CEO)
- PURNIMA PATEL MD (PRESIDENT)
- CHRISTINA WENG MD MBA (PAST PRESIDENT)
- KIMBERLY WINGES MD (PRESIDENT ELECT)
- LEJLA VAJZOVIC MD (VICE PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- LISA NIJM MD JD (CEO): $86,461 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Women in ophthalmology was founded to enhance and improve the professional environment for women ophthalmologists. Wio encourages diversity, impartiality, and economic parity, and strives to cultivate new opportunities for leadership, education, and public service field.
What it reported doing in 2024
Women in ophthalmology (wio) consists of a single program to enhance the professional environment, encourage diversity, impartially and economic parity, and to cultivate new opportunities for leadership, education and public service for women in the ophthalmology profession. Wio cultivates new opportunities for leadership through its summer symposium, an annual curated meeting for women offering the best of the best content in all subjects of importance to women ophthalmologist. Wio believes that its members must continue to prepare themselves to lead in their specialties by developing and attending courses in leadership and closely working with their peers to further prepare themselves to approach their new responsibilities wio strives to promote women within the field of ophthalmology invitations to speak at national meetings and access special programs for women in the field of ophthalmology through invitations to speak at national meetings and access special
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 90% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 97% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 54
- Transparency & Controls: 94
- Accountability: 80
- Sustainability: 66
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 56.4%; rating input score 56
- Program expense ratio: 69.2%; rating input score 69
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 92.9%; rating input score 93; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 18.5%; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.55; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.05; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 4.7%; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 20.5% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 18.9% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 19.2% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 56.4% of revenue deployed · 69.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 13 of 14 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.3M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $86K · 14 people listed
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $445K reported
- Consistency: 26 of 27 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes grants
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 56/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 7 not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 53/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 55/100.